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DEI opponents expand their map with North Carolina
Opponents of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs scored a major victory this month in North Carolina, with the state’s flagship public university preemptively moving funds away from DEI due to fears of a ban, indicating that dangers to the policies are growing even beyond conservative strongholds. Red states including Texas and Florida have…
Period supplies in schools are critical to education and health, schools and advocates say
Every day, North Carolina students who cannot afford period supplies are forced to ask teachers or school staff for feminine hygiene products. Some students miss school because they don’t have tampons or menstrual pads at home. Advocates for ending “period poverty,” the lack of access to supplies due to lack of income, met at the […] The post Period supplies in schools are critical to education and health, schools and advocates say appeared first on NC Newsline.
Paul Fulton of the nonprofit Public Ed Works on securing better pay for NC public school teachers
For several decades in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, North Carolina’s public education system was widely celebrated as an up-and-coming national model. And a key to that success was the deep and abiding support of an array of forward-looking business leaders who understood that well-funded systems of K-12 and higher education were essential […] The post Paul Fulton of the nonprofit Public Ed Works on securing better pay for NC public school teachers appeared first on NC Newsline.
Recent data shows North Carolina schools are more segregated now than they were in the late 1980s
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — School integration was a vision many believed could actually happen 70 years ago, but as decades passed, recent numbers show progress has regressed. "Our viewpoints need to change, the way that we look at other cultures needs to change, and the way that we integrate our schools needs to change," CMS sophomore Quentin Canty told WCNC Charlotte's Tradesha Woodard.
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